Author Archives: datasmiths

I am moving the location of the website to a subdomain of Datasmitty.com (as of November, 2019). I have discovered that several IBM links are going away soon, and others have already ceased to exist. Maybe this calls for some … Continue reading →

There is a downside to great storage performance! One might think that great storage performance is great performance! Given the infamous storage performance gap, what could possibly be wrong with great performing storage hardware like SSD? Let me recount an … Continue reading →

For a quick look at the latest storage performance management techniques from IBM TiovliStorage Productivity Center see Brian Smith’s webinar presentation. The webinar storyboard is in a pdf.

Revolution – the first 2000 years of computing is the Computer History Museum‘s latest exhibit.  And what a show!  You can see models of early computational machines, short videos explaining how things work, and room after room of computer artifacts.  Storage … Continue reading →

Have you ever wondered how the performance of your storage subsystem compares to that of others? You may know how many IOs per second your subsystem does, or how many megabytes per second of data it delivers, but how does … Continue reading →

Thinking about the performance of traditional disk storage, things have really changed, and rather suddenly. Storage capacity of disks has exploded. Solid State Devices are finally making real inroads To make it all simple – virtualization of everything from servers, … Continue reading →

Computer disk storage has recently crossed into a new pricing realm. Storage capacity has become inexpensive to the point that access to storage (performance) becomes the major cost consideration.